Nanomaterial: A realistic business case for Pharma
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Topic: Materials Characterization & Imaging
Effect of Medical Device Substrate Material on Nanoparticulate Silver Efficacy
Silver is one of the oldest known natural antimicrobial materials, the active form being the Ag+ ion, which disrupts critical cell functions in bacteria. Reducing the size of silver particles to the nano-scale regime increases [...]
Preparation and Characterization of Bi-2212 thin films using pulsed laser depostion technique
The surface morphology, microstructure and transport properties of the thin films are clearly a function of deposition temperature and post-annealing conditions.It is seen from our experimental data that post- annealing is required to obtain a [...]
Nanostructured films of novel azocompounds
Thin nanostructured films by Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett technique of novel azocompounds are reported. Brewster’s angle microscopy (BAM), UV-Visible absorption and atomic force microscopy (AFM) were obtained to determine the stability and quality of the films. [...]
Nanostructure LB films of novel OPV compounds
We studied the formation of Langmuir monolayers of two series of amphiphilic monodendrons -conjugated from first to third generation number with different length of terminal chains C3H7 and C12H25, the characterization of the monolayer was [...]
A Study about Surface Chemical-Physics Mechanisms Occurring for Interacting Metal Nanostructures / gas NO2
Zinc nanostructures synthesized with different morphologies from the same evaporation/condensation technique are studied with concern to surface reactivity to NO2 by Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transformed Spectroscopy (DRIFTS). Synthesis of nanopowders is obtained, according to [...]
Maintaining Clean Surfaces in Cryogenic Measurement Environments
Surfaces of nanoscale materials of all types must be kept clean to properly characterize their behavior. Materials that are characterized at cryogenic temperatures and in vacuum present additional challenges to maintaining clean surfaces. Any residual [...]
Effect of thermal treatments on the structure of photoactive titanium oxides
Nanocrystalline TiO2 is one of the most important and used photocatalysts because of the excellent efficiencies of conversion of chemical species, and its chemical stability. Its photocatalytic properties are activated only by UV light; nevertheless, [...]
Effects of the Shape of Nanoparticles on the Crystallization Behavior of Poly(ethylene terephthalate) Nanocomposites in the Flow Fields
This paper investigated the effects of the shape of nanoparticles on the crystallization behavior of high molecular weight poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET ; inherent viscosity of 0.98 g/dl) in the shear and elongational flow fields. Two [...]